plural of tangent

(differential geometry) A straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there.

(geometry) Touching a curve at a single point but not crossing it at that point. / Of a topic, only loosely related to a main topic. / (rail transport, of track) Straight; not horizontally curved.

Dated form of tangential.

(rare) In a tangent or tangential manner, tangentially.

plural of hyperbolic tangent

(trigonometry) A statement about the relationship between the tangents of two angles of a triangle and the lengths of the opposing sides.

plural of inverse tangent

plural of inflectional tangent

(mathematics) a hyperbolic function that is written in symbol tanh and defined as the following: